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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
ISBN-101568989717
ISBN-139781568989716
eBay Product ID (ePID)84548048
Product Key Features
Book TitleTrue Life : Steven Harris Architects
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicIndividual Architects & Firms / Monographs, Buildings / Residential, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Regional
IllustratorYes
GenreArchitecture
AuthorSteven Harris
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight69.1 Oz
Item Length12.2 in
Item Width10 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-007155
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal728.092/2
Synopsis"Effortless" and "inevitable" are architect Steven Harris's two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Steven Harris Architects designs spaces that are custom-tailored to their clients' daily lives and experiences. His dining rooms are not aggrandizements of tradition, they are places to eat, to gather, or even work; his entry halls are not the primary places of arrival, but rather the final segments of a long trajectory that begins when the resident turns off the main road or exits the elevator. True Life, the firm's first monograph, showcases an exceptional range of residential work from the past twenty-five years. Organized by the activities that propel their designsdine, lounge, study, play, sleep, and so onit focuses on people rather than objects. The firms spaces are not meant to set lifestyle changes into motion, but rather cater to those routines already in progress. Herein lies the genius of the work: they let the client speak for the house, not the house for the client. A foreword by writer A.M. Homes places Steven Harris Architects in the context of contemporary architecture and speaks to the understated elegance of the firm's designs.
LC Classification NumberNA737.S6425A4 2010
